The Left’s Unfortunate Turn From Atticus Finch to Benjamin Crump. Atticus leads with evidence. Crump leads with accusations of racism.

American Spectator ^ | September 29, 2020 | Jack Cashill

[karpov]

With precious little comment from the mainstream media, American progressives have disavowed Atticus Finch and aligned themselves with the mob in front of the county jail — this summer, the mob calling for the head of whichever white cop Benjamin Crump has chosen to lynch.

This is no small transition. The Atticus of To Kill a Mockingbird (not the buzzkill Atticus of the Harper Lee’s earlier effort, Go Set a Watchman) defies the racist mob and demands due process. Crump stirs up the racist mob and subverts due process. Atticus leads with evidence. Crump leads with accusations. Atticus sticks to the facts. Crump invents facts, occasionally invents witnesses, and consistently conjures up an America foreign to every black person under 70.

Historically, the Left, with occasional help from the Comintern, has made heroes out of defense attorneys. If fictional defense attorneys like Atticus defended the innocent, his real-life counterparts were not so particular. That these attorneys often defended the conspicuously guilty — from Sacco and Vanzetti to Mumia Abu-Jamal — did not much matter. The larger goal was not to free the accused but to indict America for its systemic racism and injustice.

Crump also indicts America for its systemic racism and injustice. As a trial lawyer, however, he does so to stir the mob and scare the cash out of the besieged party, a reported $12 million out of the City of Louisville in the shooting death of 26-year-old Breonna Taylor. Last week found Crump back in Louisville inciting the crowd to disorder after the grand jury refused to indict any of the implicated three police offers for Taylor’s death.

[Red Badger]

Crump is just an Al Sharpton with a law degree.................

[Steely Tom]

I’ve long been of the belief that Atticus was Maycomb’s lone Republican.

[sevlex]

Crump is an appropriate name for an incompetent shyster.

[Levy78]

Crump is hardly literate.

[Glad2bnuts]

There should be a process to easily remove someone from practicing law should they break certain rules. Rules like encouraging riots, using the press to put out evidence, or practicing more than one civil suit at a time.

[Dawgreg]

Anytime I hear the name Benjamin Crump I immediately think “shakedown”, ala Sharpless and Jackson......he’s the replacement for keeping race at the forefront.......just race and lawsuits.......gag!